The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) Reviews & Ratings

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The Marriage of Maria Braun reviews

The Marriage of Maria Braun holds a 7.4/10 average from 314 TMDB ratings.

With the defeat of the Nazis looming large, "Maria" (Hanna Schygulla) marries her sweet-heart "Hermann" (Klaus Löwitch) before he is promptly sent off to the front and she loses all trace of him. With her nation now in ruins, she has no way of surviving and so has to adapt by using her wits, guile and even her body to keep alive. Fortunately, she alights on an American soldier who enables her to keep her head above…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

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